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    Markethill (Irish: Cnoc an Mhargaidh) is a village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is beside Gosford Forest Park. It had a population of 1,647 people...
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  • Markethill High School is a secondary school located in Markethill, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The school caters for 11- to 16-year-olds and (as...
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    to 2005. Seamus Mallon was born in the largely Protestant village of Markethill to Jane (née O'Flaherty) and Francis Mallon, and was educated at the Abbey...
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    George Lambert VC (16 December 1819 – 10 February 1860), born in Markethill, County Armagh, was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and...
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    American Mechanics The Independent United Order of Mechanics website of Markethill Royal Black District Chapter No 3. County Armagh Company website Worshipful...
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  • Markethill Swifts Football Club is an intermediate-level football club playing in the Intermediate A division of the Mid-Ulster Football League in Northern...
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    Sir Archibald Acheson, 1st Baronet of Edinburgh, who later settled in Markethill, County Armagh[citation needed]. He served as Solicitor General for Scotland[citation...
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    with connections to, among others, Armagh City, Culloville, Goraghwood, Markethill, Vernersbridge, Tynan (see History of rail transport in Ireland ) but...
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  • of closure the line was run by the Great Northern Railway (Ireland). Markethill railway station opened on 25 August 1864, closed for passenger traffic...
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    Castle is a 19th-century country house situated in Gosford, a townland of Markethill, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It was built for Archibald Acheson,...
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  • former Ireland rugby union international from Northern Ireland. Born in Markethill, Hooks attended Bangor Grammar School and earned four Irish Schools caps...
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    and Craigavon Borough Council and contains the wards of Hamiltonsbawn, Markethill, Richhill, Seagahan and Tandragee. Armagh forms part of the Newry and...
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    Emma Little-Pengelly (category People educated at Markethill High School)
    smuggling of weapons to loyalists in 1987. Little-Pengelly was educated at Markethill High School, Portadown College and Queen's University Belfast. She qualified...
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  • motorcycle race that occurs on the public roads which connect Tandragee and Markethill, near the village of Clare, in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Spanning...
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  • Magheralin, Magheramason, Magheramorne, Magheraveely, Maghery, Maguiresbridge, Markethill, Martinstown, Maydown, Mayobridge, Mazetown, Meigh, Middletown, Milford...
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  • Killylea Kilmore Lislea Lisnadill Loughgall Loughgilly Lurgan Madden Maghery Markethill Meigh Middletown Milford Mountnorris Mullaghbawn Mullaghbrack Mullaghglass...
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    adoptive family is of Irish descent, with his grandparents hailing from Markethill, County Armagh. His adoptive father was president of the Owl Rexall Drug...
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    Northern Ireland. The village of Mullaghbrack is on the road between Markethill and Hamiltonsbawn, just north of Gosford Forest Park. It had a population...
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    between 1810 and 1820 and was later designed to resemble Gosford Castle in Markethill, also in County Armagh. Plans for castle's restoration were announced...
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  • 1973 local elections, and contained the wards of Killeen, Laurelvale, Markethill, Poyntz Pass, Richhill and Tandragee. It was abolished for the 1985 local...
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    derived from the farm at 59 Lough Road, Glenanne (three miles south of Markethill, County Armagh) that was used as the gang's main 'base of operations'...
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    created by John Boyle in 1982, when he opened his first betting shop in Markethill, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. In 1989, five locations were opened...
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  • non-geographic BT60 ARMAGH Killylea, Tynan, Belcoo, Middletown, Keady, Darkley, Markethill, Kingsmills Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon, Newry, Mourne and Down BT61...
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    Acheson's title derives its name from Gosford, a townland (sub-division) of Markethill in County Armagh in Northern Ireland. In 1887, the Main Northern railway...
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    Gosford Forest Park is a forest park located outside Markethill, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The park, previously Gosford Demesne, was acquired by...
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    (1819–1907) was an Irish New Zealand soldier and diarist. He was born in Markethill, County Armagh, Ireland in 1819, the son of Catherine Jenkins and her...
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    the Armagh – Keady section of the CKA in 1922 and closed the Armagh – Markethill section of the N&A in 1933. The Government of Northern Ireland forced...
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    Village 87 Moy Mid Ulster County Tyrone 1,941 767 0.96 2,032.42 Village 88 Markethill Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon County Armagh 1,906 792 0.88 2,159.36...
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  • organisation and if he was released on bail he would regroup remnants of the Markethill-based UVF unit. In June 1980 the UDA shot dead Irish nationalist politician...
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  • Boys (NL) 0–2 Comber Recreation (NL) Maiden City (NL) 4–0 Woodvale (NL) Markethill Swifts (NL) 2–3 Brantwood (NL) Moyola Park (3) 9–0 Lower Maze (NL) Newtowne...
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